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by p-christ 4y ago
Yep! Our long-term memories can store almost the entire internet as it was in 2016 inside it! See here for a reference for that: https://www.livescience.com/53751-brain-could-store-internet... Or this article we wrote also
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by p-christ 4y ago
(1) We are going to incentivise high quality decks by allowing people to sell access to their decks (2) The main problem we see with Anki public decks is that the user themselves decides whether they got the question "right" or no
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by p-christ 4y ago
I find the Anki shared decks are basically not high quality enough. Do you ever use them? Which ones do you use?
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by p-christ 4y ago
Anki public decks are usually too low quality to be useful unfortunately
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by p-christ 4y ago
I completely agree. We’ve started building that on Save All and will be going more in that direction in future. The Anki public decks are usually too low quality to be useful unfortunately
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by p-christ 4y ago
what did you think of the article?
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by p-christ 4y ago
lol thanks!
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by p-christ 4y ago
We wrote this at Save All ( https://saveall.ai/ ) and want to know what you think - tell us why it's wrong / right
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Learn Exponentially(saveall.ai)
262 points by p-christ 4y ago|148 comments
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by p-christ 4y ago
It is partly paid already, you can pay for faster life generation in the quiz. We're almost profitable & very well funded so we aren't going to be shutting down. If we ever did shutdown we would automatically export everyone&#
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by p-christ 4y ago
I’m not sure what you mean. I agree that learning often requires things like applications and exercises, where did I imply otherwise? I’m saying the reason why applications and exercises are useful are that they lead to a change in your mem
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by p-christ 4y ago
Why? I almost didn’t include a link so am interested to hear your answer
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by p-christ 4y ago
You review the AIs suggestions which itself is a form of encoding (that is arguably more powerful than the encoding you describe)
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by p-christ 4y ago
Ok but the point stands that there is a limit to your working memory. Your limit sounds a lot higher than most peoples but it is still limited otherwise you’d never get lost even if you could only read things once.
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by p-christ 4y ago
Ok how about this more difficult experiment to prove the hypothesis: I'm going to send you a wikipedia page written in chinese. You're going to read it once. For every chinese word you're allowed to look up the meaning on goo
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by p-christ 4y ago
Maybe you already know quite a lot about physics? Or maybe you have an unusually large working memory and didn't go far enough down the wikipedia hole until you got lost? The working memory limit explained in the article must apply to
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by p-christ 4y ago
> Writing is important because with it we can overcome our natural memory limitations. Very interesting. Is the theory here that by writing things out on a page we are then able to manipulate the ideas in our head without the usual limit
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by p-christ 4y ago
Spaced repetition is not the topic. The topic is memory and there are many solutions to trying to remember more, spaced repetition is just one of them. There's also things like elaboration, dual coding, mnemonics, memory palaces etc.
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by p-christ 4y ago
> There are definitely differences in how various minds work Yes, but we still all learn in roughly the same way. The differences aren't big enough.
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by p-christ 4y ago
Not sure about the relative importance, but save all also has active recall & interleaving. The encoding happens when you first learn something & create a card, and the active recall, spaced repetition & interleaving happens lat
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by p-christ 4y ago
not sure you read the article
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by p-christ 4y ago
Understanding is just knowledge of how or why something works
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by p-christ 4y ago
Learning styles are a myth https://www.techlearning.com/news/busting-the-myth-of-learni...
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by p-christ 4y ago
> You have a preference of how you learn, no? It's not a myth if there's perennial truth to it. I might have an emotional preference but there's no good evidence that different people learn better in very different ways
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by p-christ 4y ago
I think it feels different because that knowledge is more deeply ingrained with what you already know. That knowledge has many connections and relationships with other knowledge you have. Whereas the name of a function is more like a leaf
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by p-christ 4y ago
> Have you seen any SaaS or consumer products that focus on "how to learn?" and "digesting information" aspect? Yes Save All helps with that in a way https://saveall.ai/
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by p-christ 4y ago
yes exactly
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by p-christ 4y ago
I didn't mention it in the article because the article is hosted on the same domain (with a link to it at very top of page) so thought it was quite obvious. Also I wanted it to stand alone as an essay to see what people thought. If i l
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by p-christ 4y ago
why does that make it the worst possible example?
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by p-christ 4y ago
i wish school taught me how to learn instead of me having to wait until i was 25 and doing a free coursera course

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